Here is an image from: Balis JU, Paterson JF, Haller BA, Shelley SA,Montgomery MR. 1988. Ozone-induced lamellar body responses in a rat model for alveolar injury and repair. Am J Path 132:330 344, which showed the image below of an alveolar type II cell.  Just in the area around the exiting lamellar body there is an odd band of cytoplasm which has no organelles in it, looking very much like a collar.  I have seen this before, kind of like a no-fly zone, around the apical membrane (canalicular membrane) in parietal cells in NHE4 knock out mice.  Picture below is a crop from their Figure 3 of a normal rat alveolar type II cell. I have put a black dotted line around the cytoplasm which shows that no-fly-exocytosis-zone. (Their arrows are still within the original figure, pointing to two lamellar bodies about to be exocytosed into the alveolar space.